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  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  , sunburn I did. Anyway. This entry is a PSA for the Overnight Program, in ... ) in late September, and that I was outside from 2PM-5PM, I'm pretty sure ... ! Going on a college visit without sitting in on some classes is like going

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  . Please note that there may be times when there is no EC in your area and we ... interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  .  All you have to do is put a banana in a freezer for about a day and ... me really happy is a mac and cheese caserole that I've been making ... me of analyzing what is in the foods I am eating and determining which

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  how to dance. You know what that means? When you go to a party and there ... , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high ... cruise, meaning she forgot to bring a jacket and I lent her mine. Do you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  since his freshman year and is now a staff member, which means that he has ... he is very strong, so I pointed at him and announced that “he’s very ... Leatherman in your pocket?) and I supported the window with a knee and both

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  we do. If you are interested in our music community or our arts ... completed your standardized testing (especially SAT Subject Tests), now is a ... 's blog. I hope you're having a great senior year so far!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  to say that I learned a lot about how the admissions office works this ... , interesting, that I could probably do an entire entry about it alone, but I ... FAFSA has a mascot and I met it. It's strange though, we wondered how

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  I honestly do not believe that there is a baked good out there more ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I ... the door: two boxes, that I recently found in a cupboard and realized I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  that time is a valuable resource here. That’s why it’s a bit surprising ... a student-athlete in a place where the “student” part is so heavily emphasized? There’s a lot of ways to answer that, but I think the most

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  10 PM, which was glorious in a way, but just meant that I got far less ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... that I realized that I hadn't seen clouds in three months. I called

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  -and-observer, and I expressed a wish to one day participate in one myself. That day ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... feels like a room. You know, one that people live in.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that ... glowing hour of 8 AM is immensely photogenic: Note that I couldn't have ... already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  write down in your application. This is okay. Just be sure that when you ... such documents (there is a time for this later). Do not worry about ... . On the last section of both Parts One and Two, there is a link that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  odds, and turning that first failed exam into an A in the class. I wouldn ... fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to ... failure. Because this girl is a bit soft-hearted like me, she cries alone in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  answer that from a fully authoritative point of view, but I do know course ... -40 undergrads per class year in course 9, although I think that number has been ... reading. In order to graduate with a degree in course 9, there is a rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... Friday night. That's how pika works. It was a hell of a semester--mostly in ... I frequent in Santa Fe was once a jail that held Billy the Kid. My

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think ... to drive up to a meeting in a few hours, and I've got a sprint

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

   one flight of stairs ok maybe that's a lie, i used to live on stickmen (which is ... minding my own business in Basha (the lounge that's not Wolo) when I heard a ... 't occur to me that this resident thought I was a native Putzen (that is, a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022